How to Decide if You Need Braces
July 2, 2024
Dental braces are appliances that help to align your teeth and give you a better looking smile. While improving the smile is a major reason as to why you would want to get braces, allow us to highlight some other reasons as to why you should consider getting braces.
1. Your teeth are crowded:
Crowded or overlapped teeth make it difficult for you to efficiently brush your teeth leading to food particles getting stuck in between the teeth and eventually leading to formation of cavities. Getting your teeth aligned/straightened will allow you to efficiently brush all surfaces of teeth leading to a decreased chance of formation of new cavities.
2. There are gaps between your teeth:
Gaps between the teeth do not look very aesthetic and hence need to be closed up. Presence of these gaps decreases your chewing efficiency and hence should be closed up. If the gaps are due to absence of teeth then not replacing them can also impair the bite.
3. Your teeth are forwardly or backwardly placed:
The teeth if placed forwardly or backwardly affect the way your smile looks. Forwardly placed teeth are also more prone to breakage from impact while backwardly placed teeth make it very difficult for you to bite into certain food.
4. Your jaw is forwardly or backwardly placed:
Dental braces when used in conjunction with other orthopedic appliances can even help change the position of your jaw. For example, for a child whose lower jaw is bakwardly placed, an appliance like a twin block will push the lower jaw into the correct position and allow it to grow forward.
5. You have jaw pain:
Getting your bite checked by an orthodontist if you have jaw pain is a good idea.
6. You have speech issues:
In certain individuals who have habits like tongue thrusting and thumb sucking, use of habit breakers followed by alignment of teeth with braces greatly improves their speech clarity.
As is now evident, there are multiple uses of braces. Getting braces early on in life will greatly help in improving the quality of the end result & decreasing the amount of total time taken.
To schedule a consultation with our orthodontist Dr Padmini Vaddavalli, call us on +91-8431259096 or visit us at our clinic CureAlign Dentistry, Hennur, Bangalore-43.
